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The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
No social system will bring us happiness, health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s.
You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.
After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.
When hecklers stand up, I get a mental jump for joy. It gives me something to get my teeth into - and the audiences love it.
If you want to get something said in the politics tell a man. If you want to get something done in the politics tell a woman
No doubt the Jews aren't a lovable people; I don't care about them myself; but that is not sufficient to explain the Pogrom.
And just as the terrorist seeks to divide humanity in hate, so we have to unify it around an idea. And that idea is liberty.
Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.
I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.
Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.
...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.
I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon
Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.
I have done nothing important or distinguished since we met except to win the handicap prize, worth ?4 10/- at North Berwick.
You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified.
To make Europe more effective is a worthwhile objective. To make Europe less important in your calculations is a big mistake.
I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.
Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.
I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.
It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.
I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending.
Stop-Go seemed more sensiblr than using the brake and accelerator at the same time - a practice that later became fashionable.
The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.
Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
If there are further steps to European integration, the people should have their say at a general election or in a referendum.
Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."
Once government's objectives were economic growth and social cohesion. Now they are prosperity, fairness and environmental care
Think for a moment: what is the British equivalent of the U.S. Fourth of July, or even the French 14th of July for that matter?
The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
I'm either the witch or Lady Macbeth of English politics, but someone gotta wear the pants in England when others wearing kilts
I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.
You wouldn't be human if you didn't feel both a sense of responsibility and a deep sadness for those who have lost their lives.
What we have got to do now is use this event, the resignation of the whole commission, to drive through root and branch reform.
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.
Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.